Immune cells targeting maternal antigens are abundant in the blood of premature infants, suggesting fetal intolerance of mom may instigate early labor.
Rather than getting a gene for its original function, a horizontal gene transfer provides the raw material for evolutionary innovation.
Drug-free environments, such as a designated ward in a hospital, might reduce the strength of selection for resistance.
A new species of ant discovered in Borneo fends off invaders with a uniquely suicidal strategy.
The parasite changes people’s scent, primarily due to an increase in aldehydes.
A new report estimates that 95 percent of people live in areas with dangerously high levels of fine particulate matter such as dust and soot.
A preliminary clinical trial finds that the personalized therapy improves survival rates and has no severe side-effects.
Proteins and RNA aggregate into “membraneless organelles” due to liquid-liquid phase separation.
Ching-Shih Chen’s research involved anticancer therapeutics that were being tested in clinical trials.
Alterations to a protein involved in breathing may help explain some cases of sudden infant death syndrome, a study finds.
The prominent researcher has been put on administrative leave pending an investigation into unspecified allegations.
The 20-year project calls into question the conventional wisdom about the role plants will play in mitigating future climate change.
The US Senate narrowly approved the politician, who does not have a science background.
Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.
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